Inform all the troops that communications have completely broken down.
The older you get, the more important it is to not act your age.
If you can't learn to do it well, learn to enjoy doing it badly.
If you can't go around it, over it, or through it, you had better negotiate with it.
Sometimes the best way to be useful is to get out of somebody's way.
I have many unrecognized talents, but my faults have somehow succeeded in securing wide recognition.